只有通过基督，我们才能经历救恩。我们什么也做不了。我们必须接受祂的恩典、爱和救恩。祂白白地给予我们，除了让我们能经验到救恩外，别无他求。

本周，基督复临安息日会会长魏泰德牧师谈到基本信仰第10条:得救的经验。

这种深入灵魂深处的救赎经验，只来自上帝。“人若不重生，就不能见上帝的国……人若不是从水和圣灵生的，就不能进上帝的国。”（约翰福音3:3,5）

只有通过基督，我们才能经历救恩。“因为在天下人间，没有赐下别的名，我们可以靠着得救。”（使徒行传4:12）“我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉着我，没有人能到父那里去。”（约翰福音14:6）

基本信仰第10条宣称：“上帝因祂无限的慈爱与怜悯，使那无罪的基督为我们成为罪，为要使我们在祂里面成为上帝的义。我们在圣灵领导下，感觉自己的需要，承认自己的罪孽深重，悔改我们的罪愆，并相信耶稣为主，为基督，为代罪者，为我们的榜样。这项领受救恩的信心，乃得自上帝圣言的大能。为上帝恩典所赐。藉着基督我们被称为义，被收纳为上帝的儿女，从罪的辖制中得释放。藉圣灵我们重生，并成为圣洁。圣灵更新我们的心意，将上帝爱的律法写在我们心上。我们蒙赐能力度圣洁的生活。我们常在祂里面，就与祂神圣的性情有分。并如今在审判中，在得救上，都有了保证。”

耶稣白白地为我们每个人提供了从罪中完全拯救的礼物。我们要做的就是接受这个礼物。“你若口里认耶稣为主，心里信上帝叫他从死里复活，就必得救。因为人心里相信，就可以称义；口里承认，就可以得救。”（罗马书10:9-10）

一旦我们接受了这个礼物，祂就宽恕我们过去的罪，并且将我们看做好像从来没有犯过罪一样。然后祂帮助我们战胜罪。在犹大书24-25节说：“那能保守你们不失脚、叫你们无瑕无疵、欢欢喜喜站在他荣耀之前的我们的救主独一的上帝，愿荣耀、威严、能力、权柄，因我们的主耶稣基督归与他，从万古以前并现今，直到永永远远。阿们。”

在接受耶稣后，祂呼召我们“一举一动有新生的样式”（罗马书6:4）。祂想要我们用更好、更幸福的方式来生活。“我也要赐给你们一个新心，将新灵放在你们里面 。”（以西结书36:26）

耶稣在我们所处的地方与我们相遇，并乐于将我们从失丧境况中拯救出来。没有任何罪是上帝的恩典和宽恕所不能救赎的。

为了回应祂的大爱，我们要遵循上帝的律法和教导。“你们若爱我，就必遵守我的命令。”（约翰福音14:15）

但如果我们犯了错误，上帝仍在那里拯救我们。耶稣在被钉十字架之前，嘱咐门徒说：“总要警醒祷告，免得入了迷惑。你们心灵固然愿意，肉体却软弱了。”（马可福音14:38）

虽然我们选择了耶稣，我们仍然会被试探去犯罪。但祂在希伯来书13:5应许：“我总不撇下你，也不丢弃你。”

 “若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了。”（哥林多后书5:17）

最后在《喜乐泉源》70页解释了在基督里经历救恩的真正含义：“在基督里的生活是一种安静的生活。它不会有狂喜的情绪，只会有持久而坚定的信靠。你的希望不在自己身上，而是在基督身上。你的软弱连结于祂的刚强；你的愚昧连结于祂的智慧；你的无能连结于祂的恒久的大能。因此你不要看自己，也不要让心思专注于自己身上，而要仰望基督。你的思想要集中在祂的慈爱和祂优美完全的品格上。基督的克已、谦卑、纯洁、神圣与无比之爱，成了你思考的主题。如果你爱祂，效法祂，完全依靠祂，你就会变成祂的样式。”

作为一个呼吁，魏泰德牧师邀请你现在就来到上帝面前，并在今天就体验这救恩的礼物!

Only through Christ can we experience salvation. There is nothing we can do. We have to accept His grace. His love. His salvation. He gives it freely and wants nothing more than for us to experience it.

This week, President of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, Ted N.C. Wilson talks about Fundamental Belief number 10: The Experience of Salvation

The experience of salvation that reaches deep into the souls comes from God alone. “Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God…Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:3, 5).

Only through Jesus Christ can we experience salvation. “There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

Our tenth fundamental belief states: “In infinite love and mercy God made Christ, Who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that in Him we might be made the righteousness of God. Led by the Holy Spirit, we sense our need, acknowledge our sinfulness, repent of our transgressions, and exercise faith in Jesus as Saviour and Lord, Substitute and Example. This saving faith comes through the divine power of the Word and is the gift of God’s grace. Through Christ, we are justified, adopted as God’s sons and daughters, and delivered from the lordship of sin. Through the Spirit, we are born again and sanctified; the Spirit renews our minds, writes God’s law of love in our hearts, and we are given the power to live a holy life. Abiding in Him, we become partakers of the divine nature and have the assurance of salvation now and in the judgment.”

Jesus freely offers us the gift of salvation from sin. All we have to do is accept it. “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation” (Romans 10, 9-10).

Once we accept this gift, He forgives our past sins and looks at us as if we’ve never sinned. He then helps us overcome sin. As said in Jude 24 and 25, “Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.”

After accepting Jesus, He calls us to “walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4). He wants us to have a better, happier way to live. “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you” (Ezekiel 36:26).

Jesus meets us where we are and delights in saving us from our lost condition. There is no sinfulness His grace and forgiveness cannot redeem.

In response to His great love, we follow God’s law and teachings. “If ye love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15).

But if we make mistakes, God is still there to rescue us. Before He was crucified, He warned His disciples, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mark 14:38).

Though we’ve chosen Jesus, we will still be tempted to sin. But He promises in Hebrews 13:5, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Finally, Steps to Christ p. 70 explains what it truly means to experience salvation in Christ: “A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding, peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might. So you are not to look to yourself, not to let the mind dwell upon self, but look to Christ. Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection, of His character. Christ in His self-denial, Christ in His humiliation, Christ in His purity and holiness, Christ in His matchless love—this is the subject for the soul’s contemplation. It is by loving Him, copying Him, depending wholly upon Him, that you are to be transformed into His likeness.”

As an appeal, Pastor Ted invites you to come to God now and experience this gift of salvation today!